Matters Microbial #56: Marine Microbial Echoes of Evolution September 11, 2024

Today, Dr. Carolina Martinez Gutierrez of the Department of Earth Science at the University of California Santa Barbara joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss her research team’s efforts to unravel how ancient microbes thrived in the early oceans of Earth’s history . . . and to sing the praises of marine microbiology!

Host: Mark O. Martin

Guest: Carolina Martinez Gutierrez

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Links for this episode

• An overview of the microbiome of the ocean and geochemistry.
• A description of likely conditions on Ancient Earth.
• An essay about the Great Oxidation Event—the event that changed our entire planet.
• An article by Dr. Martinez Gutierrez and colleagues discussing how phylogenomics can help dissect microbial evolution without fossils.
• An overview of Prochlorococcus, one of the microbes Dr. Martinez Gutierrez discussed.
• A wonderful video about Prochlorococcus and a remarkable scientist.
• An overview of Pelagibacteri ubique (SAR11), one of the microbes Dr. Martinez Gutierrez discussed. An article about the work of Dr. Martinez Gutierrez and her research interests while a postdoctoral scholar
• The departmental website for Dr. Martinez Gutierrez
• The laboratory website for Dr. Martinez Gutierrez’s research group.

Intro music is by Reber Clark

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